Jude Nicholas

Taint Jude Nicholas

"Smart girls so rarely have any reason to be afraid." Nobody thinks Lee Petrova is smart. Fifteen years old and a beauty queen in nine different states, no one has ever spoken to her long enough to find out. They have put a hundred crowns on her head and they have buried her in sashes, but they have never called her smart. Then comes a day when all those quiet cruelties are drowned out by something very loud. Something brutal. Something lethal. It's a new version of the world and Lee finds herself stranded in it. And when the time comes, she'll do things nobody ever thought she was capable of to survive. Taint is a book about what happens when a smart girl decides not to be afraid anymore.